You most likely know about this, but just in case, this weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count, a joint effort of Audubon and Cornell. Here's the website: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc

And thanks for the posts about seed planting-- it hurried me up! I think we should plant a bit earlier here than we'd been advised a decade ago, esp for spring crops. It's not just the frost date (with cover I can deal with that for most things), its the heat that seems to come increasingly earlier.

CEN, Thanks for reminding me about the Great Backyard Bird Count. I filled up my feeders again this afternoon, but haven't been too dutiful about monitoring visitors, although the cardinal pair immediately appeared, no surprise!

And, hasn't the unusually warm weather been odd? You're definitely right that we're able to push the 'conventional wisdom' quite a bit in terms of planting now. But there's always the odd spell of cold weather that might catch us, like the April 8 hard freeze of two years ago.

But, it's still time to try sowing peas and early greens! And start some of the transplants inside....

About this blog

My blog posts span two gardens over the last decade, one in the Piedmont of South Carolina and the other in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Our gardens have been increasingly home to native plants, birds, small mammals, and insects of all sorts. My gardening companion (my husband) is equally the gardener.

Woody, our rescue Golden, is now our fellow gardener, now solely in the mountains of Western North Carolina. He follows his previous fellow goldens (and my former gardening assistants): Mocha and Chessie. They bring life to our gardens.